The Unclaimed Masterpiece won the best student VR project at Laval Virtual as it has a novel integration of a conversational interface with a virtual assistant / character who is assisting you as you try to find the correct virtual painting to steal from a mult-floor gallery. The project was created by Alizée Calet, William Plessis and Maël Sellier, who are all students in the Master MTI 3D at Arts et Métiers Laval. I spoke with Calet and Sellier about their process of creating this escape room VR experience, and the range of different AI integrations that include Whisper, ChatGPT 3.5, and Stable Diffusion to create the paintings in the experience via generative AI.

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